Galatheoidea Samouelle 1819

• Main Authors: Macpherson, Enrique, Jones, William, Segonzac, Michel
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4891317; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/2A58197EFFD5FF94FE6940D4FBF9FE0B

KEY TO FAMILIES OF GALATHEOIDEA The key provided by authors (see above) can be modified to accommodate Kiwaidae n. fam. as follows: 1. Weakly calcified lineage/sutures dividing carapace into discrete regions. Aeglidae — Carapace without lineage/sutures. 2 2. Abdomen folded up against thorax; body crab-like; chelipeds moderately elongate, stout or flattened. Porcellanidae — Abdomen folded up against itself (not against thorax); body shrimp-like; chelipeds greatly elongate, usually slender. 3 3. Sternal plate on last thoracic somite, between last legs, well developed; telson without a transverse suture and not folded beneath the preceding abdominal somites with the tailfan; third maxilliped with epipod. Galatheidae — Sternal plate on last thoracic somite, between last legs, absent; telson with a transverse suture (sometimes difficult to see) and folded beneath the preceding abdominal somites with the tailfan; third maxilliped without epipod. 4 4. Insertion of fifth pereopod clearly visible ventrally; sternite between third maxillipeds small, not produced anteriorly; eyes well developed; usually with antennal scale. Chirostylidae — Insertion of fifth pereopod not visible ventrally and situated beneath sternal plastron; sternite between third maxillipeds large, strongly produced anteriorly; eyes strongly reduced; antennal scale absent. Kiwaidae n. fam. Published as part of Macpherson, Enrique, Jones, William & Segonzac, Michel, 2005, A new squat lobster family of Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from the hydrothermal vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, pp. 709-723 in Zoosystema 27 (4) on pages 721-722, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689563